CRASSH Summer Reads

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Looking for something a bit more challenging this Summer?

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During the course of the academic year, we were able to catch up with some of our researchers and learn about their latest books. Follow the links below to read more — and note the exciting range of titles hinting at the breadth and depth of interdisciplinary research at CRASSH. As mentioned in some of the Q&As, you don’t need to be a specialist to enjoy these works.

Global Epistemics: 6 Questions to Inanna Hamati-Ataya
'I imagined some extra-terrestrial intelligent species visiting us and asking "what is the history of your kind?" Did we have any answer to that question that would reflect the advancement of our understanding of life on earth, of our common history, of what different historical paths might have existed?'

Ethnographic Plague: Q&A with Christos Lynteris
'My interest in infectious disease epidemics arises and is constantly renewed not just by recurring epidemics across the globe, but by the way in which epidemics, both past and present, challenge and transform human societies.'

Paper Tiger: Q&A with Nayanika Mathur
'Paper Tiger uses the sensational story of a man-eating big cat on the run to tell a much more subtle story of the everyday life of law and bureaucracy on the Himalayan borderland.'